January 1st, 2013: Happy Friggin New Year
Today was lovely. Saying both sarcastically and sincerely. You know that cold I said I started to get last night? Well it reared it's ugly head all day today. I layed in bed until about 2pm filled with exhaustion and body aches. Only reason I got up was because Matt went out to go get something for lunch. Since it is New Years day and it's an official bank holiday in France pretty much everything was closed, except good old Chinese food. Thankfully their New Year comes later, so you can always count on them to be open.
I tried not to eat too much in case nausea came with this cold, but all seemed well. We watched Doctor Who for a bit around 4 I ended up falling back asleep again until dinner time. The studio we were staying in may be small, but at least the bed and blankets we super comfy. I wanted to steal her comforter so bad. Thankfully by dinner time I was feeling a bit better, enough to go with Matt to find something for dinner. There ended up actually being a grocery store open so we got a few more things for breakfast the next day. We opted just to go with Chinese food again since we still had a little left over from lunch as well. We stopped by a different place and got some yummy poulet au caramel (caramel chicken, kinda like sesame chicken) and beouf basilic (Basil Beef, tastes kinda like Thai curry).
It was actually kind of nice to just have a day to chill and cooperate from traveling. We wanted to go see the Eiffel tower and La Defense today but Matt didn't want to go without me and I was in no shape so he said he was fine with just relaxing. vacationing is hard work. Next one Matt and I take will be our honeymoon and we are just heading to the beach. We're just going to sit back, enjoy the sun and sand, maybe go to a spa, go snorkeling, do whatever we want without a care in the world. and to make thing even easier hopefully I'll be able to work with a travel agency to book everything for us so I don't even have to plan everything.
January 2nd, 2013: Fly Away Home
Today is the Day. Matt flys back to the US. Then soon I'll be doing the same. We made sure to give ourselves plenty of time to get to the airport since we had to take the metro. I considered taking a shuttle from one of the train stations like I have heard of but when Matt looked it up they were all ridiculously expensive. Plus when I thought about it they would probably take longer since they have to deal with traffic and the RER only stops for about 15 seconds at maybe 15 stops total all the way up to Charles de Gaulle.
The only downside to taking the RER is we had to lug all our suite cases up and down stairs, which was so much fun. I had Matt take one of my suite cases home full of a bunch of stuff I could live without for 10 days. I figured it would make it easier on me when I have to go back so I will only have to drag around 2 suit cases instead of 3, one of which being really massive. I had him take my biggest one so I was just left with the medium and carry-on sized one and my back pack. I wish I had jammed more stuff into because after I repacked both bags at the hotel we probably could have gotten more into them. but then they might have been over weight so maybe it's ok. It took him probably over an hour to get through check in since he couldn't do it online and for some reason people weren't using the kiosks they had. Leave it to the French to make everything harder than it need be. I'm glad we got there 3 hours early or else he might have missed his plane. I'll need to remember that when it's time for me to leave.
Last time I was in CDG I got through the line tout suite because my tachycardia was happening and the French were freaking out. They pushed me to the front and didn't even care my bag was over weight, then let me may down in the back room of the check in area. They didn't want to let me on the plane since they thought I would die or something. No one tends to listen when I say I'll be fine. It's like they don;t trust me when I say I've had it ever since I was in 5th grade, I know what I'm doing. One the plus side I got a whole isle to myself and a wheel chair to the plane. Maybe I should drink strong french coffee before getting to the airport again.
We said our goodbyes, which were much shorter this time since I'm coming home soon. honestly if I wasn't coming home I would have ruled Matt's trip here kind of lame and would have been even more sad things didn't go as planned hardly ever. But since I'll be some soon I can handle it more. Then Matt will be stuck with me forever.
January 3rd, 2013
Wow, I have never been so bored in all my life. Cabin fever is a real thing because I have it. even though I can go do stuff, there is nothing to do back in Orleans, and I feel so lonely now that Matt is gone. It was nice having some me time when I first got home, but now I'm just sad. I really can not wait until people start getting back to the foyer so I can have some interactions with people.
Only person back so far is Dalia and we had dinner together which was nice. I always think I'm more of a loner, until I'm really alone. Then it's just sad. I don't have many friends in KC, but Matt is always there which makes it better. When he is gone on business I realize I need to find more friends so I don't get depressed. I'm very happy I have friends here and I'm sad to have to leave them. I wish I could bring them all back to KC with me. I wanna invite them all to my wedding but I know no one will make it, since half of them live across the pond. I think I'll still mail over a save the date card to everyone.
I'm actually quite glad to be going home and I'm glad I decided to. While I'm sad I have to say good bye to all my new friends, and won't get to go to any more cool places, I think I will be happier, and my stress will be lower. Now I won't freak out as much about saving up money for the wedding and if things go wrong with the house (so long as they are smallish things:) since we will have 2 incomes. Its going to be a long wait though. Still 9 more days until I leave.
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